Category Archives: dads

Celebrate, Gripe & Get to Know Other Dads

Whether you’re a dad to a daughter or a son (or both), you’ll fall in love with the blog Life To Her Years, written by a dad about loving and raising his two daughters. Each post is a simple picture and caption, with a funny, insightful or thoughtful tip for raising your daughter. But really, most of the tips apply to any gender.

From the dad blog LifeToHerYears.com

We’d love to hear from you in the comments section below, too: what’s most important to you in raising your daughter or son?

And while we’re talking daddyhood, we know that you need a community, too.

That’s why Blooma offers a monthly “Dad’s Hour” — led by a local dad. Dad’s Hours are offered twice monthly — once at Blooma Minneapolis and once at our St. Paul location. The next Dad’s Hour sessions are:

Saturday, March 2, 2-3 p.m. (Mpls) | SIGN UP
Saturday, March 16, 5-6 p.m. (St. Paul) | SIGN UP

Sign up online (and bring a buddy!). Whether you want to gripe about the sleep you’re not getting, find out if others also have anxieties about becoming a dad, or are just looking to get to know other dads, we’d love to see you on March 2 or 16!

It’s just a $10 drop-in fee, or use your partner’s Blooma Pass. Whether you’re a Dad-To-Be or already have 1, 2, 3, or more kids at home, Dad’s Hour is an hour for all types of dads to relate to other dads.

Love,

Alisa, Sarah & the Blooma family

New Class for Dads/Partners + Dads-to-Be – This Thursday!

by Alisa

With so much focus on mom as her pregnancy progresses, it’s easy for dads’ or partners’ questions to go unanswered. Blooma knows that it’s not just the mama who needs support.

Join postpartum doula Margaret McKinley Owens and her husband, Charlie Owens, as they guide “Pappy Hour,” this Thursday (8/16), 7:30-9 p.m.

This new class just for dads and partners — from pregnancy through the first year of baby’s life — answers many of the questions you never thought to ask, for just $15.

Here’s what one mom wrote us after the last Pappy Hour:

I think he was nervous because he had never left the house alone with Henry (who is now 3 months old). After class he said he felt like he gained some confidence (it helped seeing other dads with their babies), learned about resources that provide ideas for interaction with baby and “dad stuff…” The best part was that he said, “[He] would DEFINITELY go to another Pappy Hour!”

Love,

Alisa, Sarah & the women of Blooma

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THANKS + LOVE to Dads (+ Pics of You at Yoga!)

by Alisa

Thank you to dads of all kinds, possessing varying talents, battling different challenges, the dads who love, listen, and try their best.

Love to the dads-to-be, who wait for new life to unfold and who wonder how life, relationships, and work will change once he lays eyes on his sweet newborn for the first time.

Love to the dad who mastered middle-of-the-night swaddles. Love to the dad who brings mama water every time she sits down to nurse.

Love to the dads who hold tiny hands, gently wipe knee scrapes, kiss salty tears, give eskimo kisses, read bedtime stories, cheer “HOORAY!” and drive carpools.

Love to the dads who lose their tempers, then step back for a deep breath and an “I’m sorry.”

Love to the dads who raised us — fabulous and not-so-fabulous — for setting us on the path we’re on today.

Love to the men who have fathered us in ways other than blood-to-blood relationship, who folded us into their hearts to nurture and mentor us, who freely chose this role.

Love to the dads who are no longer with us, who we miss dearly, but who continue to live in our hearts and memories.

Love to the dads whose own childhoods were tough, but who strive every day to carve different, more intentional ways of fathering their own children.

Love to the dads who’ve lost a child, and whose hearts will never be the same.

Love to the dads who work to balance career and family life — knowing that the balance is always teetering and never easy.

May each of you know how valued and adored you are. Happy Father’s Day!

Dads, in what ways are you grateful for being a father? Mamas, in what ways would you like to praise your partner today?

Love,

Alisa, Sarah & the women of Blooma

P.S. – Enjoy these photos of dads who attended Blooma yoga classes for free all week!